by Parks Mahaney
This article first appeared in the April 1982 Flight Test News.
The North Texas Chapter of the SFTE met Wednesday night, 31 March 1982, to hear Commander David Young speak on the Coast Guard Aviation Mission and to give an update report on the HH-65A (SRR) project currently in progress at the Aerospatiale facility in Grand Prairie, Texas. Commander Young is a 1963 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a previous search and rescue pilot, and currently the Commanding Officer of the Aircraft Program Office at the Aerospatiale plant.
The meeting was held at Mr. Catfish in Arlington, Texas, and featured “all-you-can-eat” catfish fillets. From the relative safety of the speakers’ table, the writer, entrenched behind a steak dinner, was vividly reminded of the late John Belushi in the cafeteria line in “Animal House.” At the conclusion of the meal the waitresses were exhausted and shaking their heads in disbelief, while the owner was sobbing in a corner. Certain individuals, unnamed, will be guilty of gross negligence if their gross weight/cg figures are not recalculated for their next flight.
This article first appeared in the April 1982 Flight Test News.
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